From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752431Ab3BPIZS (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:25:18 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f49.google.com ([74.125.83.49]:63528 "EHLO mail-ee0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751399Ab3BPIZR (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:25:17 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:25:12 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Yinghai Lu , Greg KH Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jens Axboe , Alexander Viro , "Theodore Ts'o" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Laura Abbott , Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [-rc7 regression] Buggy commit: "mm: use aligned zone start for pfn_to_bitidx calculation" Message-ID: <20130216082512.GA18851@gmail.com> References: <20130213111007.GA11367@gmail.com> <20130214144510.GC25282@gmail.com> <20130214145424.GA26071@gmail.com> <20130214150810.GA26095@gmail.com> <20130215114425.GD26955@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130215114425.GD26955@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ingo Molnar wrote: > Revert attached below - it reverts cleanly and I'll test this > today, to see whether this solves the sporadic lockups. Ok, the revert survived a day of hundreds of randconfigs - while it would lock up within 100 randconfigs before. So this commit appears to be the root cause of the regression. Thanks, Ingo